Rachel Carson

In the late 1960s and early 1970s research came forward that pesticides were harming fish, birds, and man, and a growing concern for pollution. Pesticides were previously controlled solely for consumers and farmers under the 1947 the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act. The Long Island Spray Trial that went through a number of phases in order to end the spraying of DDT and Kerosene oil to eradicate moths in the northeast United States, gained national interest when it made it to…

Benjamin Franklin was born on January 17th, 1706 in Boston, Massachusetts. At 17 years old he ran away from Boston to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as a fugitive. This was due to the fact that he spoke against the government saying, "Without freedom of thought there can be no such thing as wisdom and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech." Later in life Franklin was known for his anti-oppressive government views. His political views are what he is most know for as he was the…

In 1962, Rachel Carson, an acclaimed author, asked the country what it would be like if there were no birds singing in the trees when they went outdoors. What would it be like to have a “silent spring”? Carson brought to light the impact of the commonly used pesticide dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) on the ecosystem, most specifically how it affected birds and other wildlife, at a time when such considerations were not a part of the public discourse (PAN). Over the next several years,…

by seeking proof from chemical manufactures of what they were using. By exposing the hazards of the chemical pesticides, Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring was a new public awareness that nature was vulnerable to human intervention. Conservation had never raised much broad public interest, for few people really worried about the disappearance of wilderness. However, the threats Carson had outlined such as the contamination of the food chain, cancer, genetic damage, the deaths of entire species, were…

eradicating insects, birds, fish and even contaminating soil. Somehow, in the transformation phase, nobody bothered to rationalize the level of toxicity these chemicals possess and how spraying them could possibly be threatening to all existence. Rachel Carter in Silent…

historical and modern works are the same and each gender reflects on it a divergent way, but has the same concepts. Historical and modern writers such as William Wordworth in “The world is too much for us”, Percey Shelley in “Ode to the West Wind”, Rachel Carson in Silent Spring, Mary Oliver “Wild Greese”, and Edward Abbey in Desert Solitaire all relate with nature in a diverse way. In the writing world both men and women authors impact readers in a compelling aspect through how they convey…

Carson used DDT to tell the world about the consequences of the overuse of insecticides. She was able to show how the chemicals were able to transform an area where all lives seemed to live in harmony into the land of death. She showed how birds, sea, and…

Pushing the Environment to its Limit The vast majority of people that have lived on the planet in some way or form have contributed in the process of destroying the environment. One author, Rachel Carson wrote the novel “Silent Spring” which caused a lot of controversy amongst people today on how humans are destroying the environment and causing evolution to occur because of their actions. Although there are people that believe we are bettering the environment by developing modern technology,…

In the mid-twentieth-century, humans were faced with an array of warnings and dangers due to the rise of two popular works of literature during this time period. By analyzing both George Orwell’s 1984 and Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, it is clear that both authors clearly had distinct and focused messages that forewarned society about the possible dangers that can be faced in the near future if change was not implemented. In 1984, Orwell depicted a dystopian world in which the government…

It is on the local news or found in the newspaper. It is in the air that people breathe every single day. However, many humans are still not aware of the harmful effects of global warming. Carbon is emitted into the air daily because of the burning of fossil fuels. Eventually, we will run out of fossil fuels. Then what happens? There are plenty of clean alternatives that put little to no greenhouse gas into the atmosphere. One small switch at a time could save a population of polar bears or even…